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As for "highway miles", that's a rather debatable concept. Miles are miles on the odometer. Assigning more value to highway miles is more like puffery than fact IMO. Who has ever scientifically proven otherwise?
Very true in Dallas, with the sun, heat, and hailstorms. Applies to parking at work especially.
Hmm, maybe I should use that rationale to help me get over my fear of the Pontiac 301. I also have a fear of the pre-1985 Buick 231 V-6 and the GM 4L60E transmission, but that's because I have first-hand experience with those failing. :P
I know my '06 is valued at like $16k trade-in now. If it was an auto, it would be $1k more. Mine is the same as that one on ebay, minus the NAV and spoiler. So figure in about 1 year, that car will be maybe $16,500-$17k. So that new owner is looking at at least $5k in depreciation, while the first owner only took a $3500 hit. I'd say that seller did very well.
Which makes me think maybe I should sell mine on Ebay!
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
Tacky
Good luck
And, yet, even after all that, although the pics are small, it looks to me like the panel fitment is off.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
Edmunds lists the TMV on that '87 300zx at just under $3K! While I would think it might be worth more if it is all the seller claims, No Way is that a 15k auto.
Just cause it's old and still pretty doesn't make it worth stupid money.
i wonder what it looks like under the wrap. my wife had one for about 6 years. i never liked how it shifted gears and except for the occasional glitch, it was a pretty decent car. it got us through a 400+ mile snowstorm, so i have a soft spot for it.
This will keep your credit cards busy
Oddity
Survivor
70s pretentiousness
Nothing could go wrong here
I kinda like it
"Just to be clear - this car needs absolutely nothing right now".
AC/$2000; transmission overhaul $2,500; head gasket $1,500 ?? (known for cracked heads).
Got a real bad feeling about that particular car:
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Jaguar XJS -- as bad as these cars are, still that seems rather cheap. I would think more like $5,000; after all the masochist requires that the pain be exquisite. Fortunately, these V12 cars often solve their own problems by catching on fire, with the V12 engine sometimes referred to as the "auxiliary heating system".
Mazda Cosmo -- historically interesting car, and probably worth buying and holding onto.
75 Mercedes 230 -- no, you don't want that year/ model.
1973 Corolla KE 20 --- GREAT little car, worth every penny. Buy it.
That dashboard is really nice looking.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
That Corolla looks like such a little torture chamber though, and a vulgar color to boot. I don't care how expensive gasoline gets...I'd pay the money to have a '76 Electra converted to all electric before forcing myself into one of those things! :surprise:
I never really cared for the Ford Elite, although that does look like a nice one, and in a tasteful color. I just think that GM did pimpy intermediates soooo much more tastefully back then. And even the likes of the Chrysler Cordoba and Charger S/E and Magnum just seemed more toned-down. I always thought Ford's intermediates had cool dashboards though, with the four round dials in a row, and the way it sweeps away.
Those things were bearable if you were 5'8", but I wouldn't want to spend 10 minutes in one. These were designed before Japan figured out how large we were over here.
Regarding that /8...I know it's not a good year and it's a dog...but I somehow have an itch for a very basic little car like that. I've also been thinking what will replace my daily driver E55 in the future...probably not another V8 car as I think even with my short commute, the fuel will become an annoyance.
High miles scares me and 230k is a lot of miles for any car.
I like keeping the fintail dry, too...they weren't exactly rust-resistant.
MrShiftright
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Depreciation
At least the seller is honest and not passing it off as a viable project
Unfortunate styling
"the car is consindered a classic and is worth $9000 just to let you know" - thanks for the info
As for that Mounty Carlo, what is "charom". Isn't that the 70's chick that would holler "coochie coochie coochie!"?
I'm impressed that the '67 Satellite actually has useable quarter panels. Usually with those cars, if they were going to rust out, that would be the first place they'd go. For $650 it might be worth it just for the parts, if somebody has one of those things they're fixing up. I'm guessing its 8 3/4 rear-end would have fairly aggressive gearing, too which might be worth something if it's salvageable.
Sometimes I miss that place, but it just wouldn't be the same today. When we lived down there, there was a farmhouse across the street that must have sat on about 100 acres or more. Woods to the back, and fields that were just starting to return to nature. I looked at some aerial photos of the area recently, and there's a new crop in that field now...McMansions. :sick:
The field we used as a BMX/off road bike trail when I was a kid is now occupied by a field of tract houses...all of them appear to be maybe half the quality of the unredeeming 70s-80s subdivision where I lived...and that's not saying much.
Yeah, I think if there's one color that would turn me off to a car, it would be brown. Although there are exceptions. For instance, I don't really mind the lighter, more caramel-ish brown on the 1979 Catalina pictured in this brochure. It's not my favorite color in the pallete, but I could tolerate it.
And Chrysler had a color called Sable Tan Sunrise Metallic, which while it looks brown to me, I could probably deal with it. I think another advantage though, is that these cars have more of a lighter, more beigish interior. If the car was a dark brown color with a dark brown interior, I'd probably hate it.
Those things were bearable if you were 5'8", but I wouldn't want to spend 10 minutes in one. These were designed before Japan figured out how large we were over here.
I am a little late on the Corolla, but my dad had a '73 2 door, but the grill was different than that one. He paid $2300 for it back the, so they actually appreciated a hundred dollars. When the first gas crisis hit he decided to take the family of 5 on a yearly 2 week vacation to the outer banks in it instead of the '71 Catalina because he could save $20 on gas. I swear to this day the reason my knees creek is due to being stuffed like a sausage in the back for 8 hours.
That Corolla made it to 1986 and was titled in 4 different family members names. With a 160k miles it was sold to the scrap yard for $100.
Those snowflake wheels on that big Bonnie coupe are interesting, anyway.
Even Mercedes did it...from the mid 60s through the late 70s, "tobacco brown" (originally "Havana brown", but that had to be changed) was not an uncommon color. A brown 240D with a caramel tex interior would really be a 70s flashback, maybe not in a good way. I've even seen it on SLs...I can't imagine going to a MB dealer in 1975, ordering a fancy new roadster, and choosing it to be brown.
As for brown Benzes, I have a brown Matchbox 60's Benz. I think it's supposed to be the hardtop, but the way they made it, it looks like a 2-door sedan. Like this, but in brown.
All of those color choices are amazing to modern eyes. Go buy a Camcord and you might get to choose from 6 colors if you are lucky.
I know the Matchbox you mention, the 300SE, introduced ca. 1967 and made until maybe 1972. It was supposed to be the W112 hardtop coupe, but I guess the diecast process wouldn't allow it to lack a pillar, so they included it. The most common color for that car is blue, here it is in an ugly color.
There was also a Matchbox version of a W111 220SE coupe, introduced to the lineup ca. 1962. It lacked the pillar and was a "true" hardtop toy car.
Speak of the devil...I went to the mechanic to pick up my Intrepid today, and he had a rough looking 450SL, with the hard top on, in brown. :sick: My Intrepid was parked right in front of it. I've seen worse shades of brown, so it wasn't the nastiest thing I've ever seen, but yeah, I couldn't imagine back in the 70's, going to the Benz dealer and say "gimme the brown one!"
As for the Intrepid, the mechanic did a few things to it that he thought might fix it's stalling/refusing to start problems. Unfortunately, it didn't act up on him, and there were no error codes in the computer, so he was sort of flying blind. He told me to take it and give him a call in a few days and let me know how it was doing. Unfortunately, I didn't have to wait that long. It got me back home, and then it got me out to the liquor store. But then on the way back home, I was sitting at a red light, and it cut off. I put it in neutral and turned the key, and it fired right up, but back to the mechanic it went.
This time, I parked it next to a beat-up '67-68 Imperial hardtop sedan, and in front of his '59 DeSoto Firedome parts car, so it was in good company, I guess. :shades:
i came in a couple of hours later than usual, 7:45 am.